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The APS Council held their fall meeting at the
Fort Lauderdale Marriott North Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 5-7,
2006. Council was presented with reports from the Publications, Finance,
Membership, Education, Careers Committees, and Public Affairs Committees.
APS staff members Marsha Maytas, Robert Price, Alice Ra’anan, and Margaret
Reich joined the meeting to assist with the committee report presentations. The Publications Committee reported that the Journal Impact Factors made a strong showing in 2005 as they had in previous years, and that Physiological Genomics’ impact factor went up to 4.636. The Committee also announced that three “Physiology in Medicine” articles have been published this year in the Annals of Internal Medicine. A series of articles that describe ways in which the classic physiology articles can be used for teaching are published in Advances in Physiological Education. The Publications Committee reported that Thomas Kleyman has been appointed Editor of AJP-Renal Physiology and Curt Sigmund has been appointed as Editor of AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. Their terms will begin in July 2007. The Finance Committee presented Council with the projected final 2006 budget and the proposed 2007 budget, both of which were accepted and approved by Council. The Education Department reported that, in 2007, there are going to be two sessions of the APS Professional Skills Training for Minority Students. The first course will be held in January in Orlando, FL, and the second will be in March in Bethesda, MD. These courses are designed for early graduate students and will concentrate on basic presentation skills. APS Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Alice Ra’anan reported that the Public Affairs department is trying to arrange for scientists, who are attending EB07 in Washington, DC, to meet with their Congressional representative to promote funding for biomedical research. Any member interested in visiting his/her representative can contact the APS Office of Public Affairs for additional information at paffair@the-aps.org. The Women in Physiology Committee reported that Barbara A. Horwitz, Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Vice Provost for Academic Personnel at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as the 2007 Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor Awardee. Horwitz has had a tremendous mentoring career, having mentored 11 pre-doctoral students, eight postdoctoral fellows, and many undergraduate and high school students. Many of these mentees have gone on to a wide variety of positions, in academia as well as in medicine, and are leading successful scientific careers. Horwitz will receive her award at the EB07 meeting. APS Executive Director Martin Frank reported that APS would be hosting an opening reception at EB07. The reception will immediately follow the Cannon Lecture on Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 7:00 pm. The reception replaces the APS mixer that was normally held later Saturday night at the EB meetings. Council discussed the Strategic Plan and progress that has been made on implementing goals of the plan. The Animal Care Committee reported that they would be meeting to discuss priorities for their committee based on the Strategic Plan. During the 2006 summer Council meeting, Council mandated the creation of four task forces—Finance, Meetings, Conferences, Government—to help with the implementation of the Strategic Plan. Each of these task forces has since met by conference call and provided Council with the minutes of these calls. The task forces have additional calls scheduled, and several will be meeting at EB07. Additional details of the Council’s 2006 fall meeting will be presented to the membership at the 2007 APS Business Meeting. The Business Meeting will be held at EB07 on Tuesday, May 1, at 5:45 pm in the Washington D.C. Convention Center, Ballroom B. All APS members are encouraged to attend. Council Action Items
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Building upon a recommendation made by John
West to Charles Tipton when he was a member of Council, the Society has
initiated the Living History Project in an effort to chronicle the exploits
and experiences of senior members of the Society. Over the last several
years, we have lost a number of eminent physiologists who made significant
contributions to the discipline of physiology and to the Society. In
proposing this project to Council, Tipton hoped to capture the images,
experiences and wisdom of our senior members for the benefit of future
generations of physiologists. As originally conceived, inclusion in the program required an individual to be nominated as worthy of being videotaped and featured and then selected for participation by a committee. As it currently stands, the Living History Video Project will not have a selection component. Instead, the membership is strongly urged to identify APS members 70 years of age or older at their institutions whose contributions are worthy of chronicling through videotape. It is anticipated that individuals identified for inclusion in the Living History Project will be interviewed at facilities at their academic institution. Since the institution will also be interested in posting the video on its web site, it is hoped that the cost of videotaping will be borne by the institution. The interview should be conducted by a faculty colleague or a former student familiar with the individual’s career. It is anticipated that the interview will last approximately 60 minutes and include the following: 1) a brief introduction; 2) a discussion on how and why he/she became a physiologist; 3) list individuals that were influential in the development of his/her career; 4) a discussion of the origin and significance of their accomplishments; and 5) advice for beginning physiologists. At present, two APS members have been chronicled as part of the Living History Project. The videotapes for Maurice Burg and Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen can be viewed at http://www.the-aps.org/livinghistory/index.htm. If you are interested in coordinating the interview of a senior physiologist, suggested names can be submitted by you or through your disciplinary section. However, all suggestions are to be submitted to Martin Frank (mfrank@the-aps.org) so various aspects of the process can be properly coordinated. The archival component of the Living History Project, which originally included a published biographical profile in Advances in Physiology Education, will be retained but “uncoupled” from the video component in that yearly recommendations will be originated from the Sections. It is envisioned that each year at the Experimental Biology Meeting, Sections will nominate a deserving senior member and forward his/her name to Charles Tipton, Historical Perspective Editor, Advances in Physiology Education. You can help facilitate this sectional function by forwarding your recommendation and rationale to the sectional chair well in advance of the Experimental Biology Meeting. |
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